Ownership is at the heart of people's daily activities and has been throughout history. People
consider ownership when acting on objects, engaging in financial matters, and assessing …

Ownership and value go together, and understanding both is imperative for children to know
how to act in socially appropriate and advantageous ways. This paper reviews how children …

From early childhood, humans demonstrate an understanding of ownership and the rights it
confers to owners. This understanding impacts how children reason about people's actions …

The experimental philosophy of law is a recent movement that aims to inform traditional
debates in jurisprudence by conducting empirical research. This paper introduces and …

The proliferation of information technology has enabled the emergence of different types of
smart technologies, such as digitally enhanced toys and self-tracking wearable devices …

Psychological ownership refers to the subjective feeling that something is mine. Although
previous consumer research focuses on how different ways of engaging with a target can …

Self-ownership has fallen out of favor as a core moral and political concept. I argue that this
is because the most popular conception of self-ownership, what I call the property …

The basis of property rights is a central problem in political philosophy. The core
philosophical dispute concerns whether property rights are natural facts, independent of …

Owners decide what happens to their property, and so adults typically view autonomous
beings as non-owned. If children likewise consider autonomy when judging what is owned …

We suggest that the psychology of ownership encompasses much more than feelings of
ownership and includes much of “legal” ownership. To make our case, we review ownership …